Yorkshire Accent Work

So, I spoke with a modder on Mod DB and found out they only need people with British, specifically Yorkshire and Lancashire, accents. He said if I could do accent work, then I was certainly welcome-

Y'know, I have to pause right here and mention these thoughts aren't coming out of my head without sounding like they're from Yorkshire.

Hrhrm. Anyhow. As suggested by my teachers (Scott and Raymond) years ago, I've done a lot of work in the past few hours. Having done a lot of accent work in the past has made this easier than I thought it would be, but also a great deal harder. Yorkshire has a very strange accent that I'm not used to. One little slip and it changes to Irish, Scottish, or Liverpool. You have to change the ou in about or out to an au to avoid too much of an ooooooOOOooOO sound (like you'd get with Liverpool) and almost completely stop using r's.

For someone who enjoys speaking like a pirate and generally fully pronounces every letter of every word, this is interesting. Words like happening may change to appn'in or happinin depending on how you want to go with it.

When picking up new accents, especially ones like Yorkshire, I recommend doing as much research as possible. I've recently discovered Wikipedia has a section for at least the Yorkshire and Lancashire accents as well as many others. Wikihow even has an article on Yorkshire accents. I wouldn't trust everything they say, but it's a pretty good start. I would specifically recommend looking into IDEA (again, great springboard) and then going into other sources. Find as many as you can and repeat, repeat, repeat. Don't worry about the acting until you finish getting the voice work down.

Here are some good places to look for Yorkshire Accents:
http://web.ku.edu/~idea/europe/england/england.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_accent
http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-a-Yorkshire-Accent

Do your own research and share what you find!